Letter

The blood-pressure-lowering drugs known as ACE inhibitors are a mainstay of treatment for many diseases. But with growing use of these heart-helping medications, more and more patients are winding up in emergency rooms with a rare side effect that most have not been warned about: swelling around the face and neck. In the worst cases, the patient's tongue and throat become hugely bloated, closing the airway. No medications can slow or reverse this swelling, called angioedema.

Mayor's 'we' lacks top officials What is the function of a municipal governing body? Is it not to work together with us citizens to make decisions that would be in the best interest of the people in our community? I recently returned from vacation to find out about a letter that Haddon Township Mayor William J. Park Jr. had sent to Green Valley Tennis Club on Crystal Lake Avenue. In it, he sugested that its property be purchased by the city. "We have had the property appraised and are prepared to offer $525,000," said the letter.

Nine-year-old Bella Troilo's lunch with Mayor Nutter Friday was nearly four months coming. He had to cancel his original visit to Sharswood Elementary, where she is in third grade, but she was determined to hold the elected official to his word — and did just that. Waiting patiently in the South Philadelphia school's library, Bella sat with her parents, drinking lemonade and eating chicken nuggets, when the mayor walked into the room. Nutter greeted teachers and the students anticipating his arrival, but he was sure to immediately apologize to Bella for his March no-show.

Sorry, I don't wish to be a "party pooper" but the grandstanding of Mayor Nutter and Jay-Z on the Art Museum steps was not cute at all! It sent a bad message! America is not a "straight country" anymore. Too many mixed messages. Sell drugs and shoot people (including family members) to get your start-up money and just maybe … just maybe one day you will stand next to the mayor of a major city. Why? To promote a concert called "Made In America. " In addition to that, just maybe … just maybe you will own a percentage of an NBA basketball team.

The month the disco ball cried With the recent passing of Donna Summer and Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, the soundtrack of the baby boomers' lives is dwindling down to a few precious cuts of pulsing musical memories. When rock-and-rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper perished in a 1959 plane crash, the tragedy was immortalized in the classic anthem "American Pie," which is famous for the refrain "The day the music died. " May 2012 may be remembered as "The month that the disco ball cried.